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Infected by Nemesis. What do know about how and when. What we don't know.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I think the WoJ is that it has an absolute cap on how many simultaneous Nemfected beings there can be at any given time.
Some speculate the cap is 13.
Some have wondered if there's a total power-level it can control, so maybe 13 mortals, but fewer total if it's enforcing its will on beings like the Leanansidhe, Aurora, Cat Sith, etc.
I'm also wondering if inanimate Nemvectors (like the Athame) count against that cap.
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Or subject to change? As in Jim may not have that worked out yet himself. Or it sounds like what we are calling infection really isn't in the classic sense of the word. It is hard to say on the Athame, because in the Winter Court we know on page of two who had physical contact with it, Lea and Mab. Since Mab seemed to be blaming it as a source for Maeve's infection, it implies that she had contact with it also.. However there is no evidence on page that either Maeve or Cat Sith had physical contact with the Athame.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 30, 2023, 11:13:42 AM ---Or subject to change? ...
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Jim himself seems to have specifically not specified the exact number.
I strongly suspect that's because he hasn't decided: As an author, he wants to reserve that detail to serve the needs of future stories...
Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on October 30, 2023, 03:52:49 PM ---Jim himself seems to have specifically not specified the exact number.
I strongly suspect that's because he hasn't decided: As an author, he wants to reserve that detail to serve the needs of future stories...
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Indeed!
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on October 30, 2023, 11:13:42 AM --- ... Or it sounds like what we are calling infection really isn't in the classic sense of the word ...
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I very much doubt that Nemesis works identically to any mundane biological infectious disease!
It's merely a good simile in some specific narrow-focus cases.
--- Quote from: Mira on October 30, 2023, 11:13:42 AM --- ... Since Mab seemed to be blaming it as a source for Maeve's infection, it implies that she had contact with it also ...
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I don't think that's implied, at all. "It was the knife" is simply a statement of how Nemfection entered the Winter Court.
Whether Lea then used the Athame to nemfect Maeve, or whether Lea herself was the Nemvector that got Maeve (or whether Lea nemfected some unrevealed additional agent (unseen onstage) who in turn got to Maeve) isn't -- AFAIK -- addressed by Mab's statement.
Another possibilty: what if it was Mab herself who, in forcing Nemesis out of Lea (there at the Winter Well), allowed it (unbeknownst to Mab) to enter Maeve? Extra pain and rage for Mab!
But I think Cat Sith is yet another instance, unrelated to the Lea/Maeve nemfection.
The_Sibelis:
--- Quote ---I don't think that's implied, at all. "It was the knife" is simply a statement of how Nemfection entered the Winter Court.
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another aspect of the knife and Leah not to be forgotten, is she thought she could use it to take on "that which stalks us all" hindsight 20/20 obviously Nemesis itself. So she knew it was a vector to Nemesis, and thought between its power and the connection she could take Nemesis through it I think. It backfired, she didn't expect the knife to open her up in return as much as it did.
An I'd guess it's such a good vector(though itself not Nfected in the direct sense), because as her atheme, it has not only worked black magic but worked Morganna's magic, and tasted her blood during ritual too.
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